Unpopular Front

Unpopular Front

On Formlessness

Enough what, more how

John Ganz
Feb 18, 2021
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Two Forms. Philip Guston

I still haven’t read the Martin Scorsese piece in the new Harpers, but this excerpt from it caught my eye:

As recently as 15 years ago, the term ‘content’ was heard only when people were discussing the cinema on a serious level, and it was contrasted with and measured against ‘form,’ Then, gradually, it was used more and more by …

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